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Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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SELF-FORGIVENESS INTERVENTIONS FOR WOMEN EXPERIENCING A BREAKUP, Kathryn Campana

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Electrodeposited Silica Thin Films, Debbie Campbell-Rance

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Inferential Methods for High-Throughput Methylation Data, Maria Capparuccini

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The Prevalence of Maxillary Altered Passive Eruption in a Dental School Population., Francisco Carlos

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Canopy Disturbance and Reproduction in Cornus florida L., Daniel Carr

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Sweet Briar, 1800-1900: Palladian Plantation House, Italianate Villa, Aesthetic Retreat, Harriet Christian Carr

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Styling the Sound: Vocal Coaching The Big Knife, Melissa Carroll-Jackson

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Core-Shell Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Design, and Characterization, Kyler Carroll

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Electrophysiological Analysis in an Animal Model of Dystonia, Kunal Chaniary

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Bottom Creek, Bent Mountain, VA, Genesis Chapman

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The Association between Prenatal Care Content and Quality with Preterm Birth and Maternal Postpartum Health Behaviors, Susan Cha

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The Michael Chekhov Technique: In The Classroom and On Stage, Josh Chenard

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OPTICAL MEASUREMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL URANIUM USING POROUS SILICA MATERIALS, Chien-Cheng Chen

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DREAMFALL: The Fleeting-ness of Memory, Hon Chen

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REGIONAL HETEROGENEITY AND DIVERSITY OF ASTROCYTES IN RESPONSE TO HIV-1 PROTEINS AND MORPHINE, Wen Chen

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P53 mediated cell motility in H1299 lung cancer cells, Mi-Yon Choi

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PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY MEASUREMENTS OF THE TOTAL CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION WITH CIRCULATORY FLOW AUGMENTATION, Steven Chopski

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SCRIBBLE: A POTENTIAL DUAL KINASE INHIBITOR, Steven Christofakis

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Untitled, Lindsay Chudzik

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PAYMENT OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT EXAM FEES BY VIRGINIA PUBLIC SCHOOL DIVISIONS AND ITS IMPACT ON ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENROLLMENT AND SCORES, Mary Grupe Cirillo

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Density Functional Studies of the Stability of Clusters, Penee Clayborne

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The Effect of Power on Exploratory Behavior, William Clay

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Burials, Andrea Cleary

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Expression & Purification of Recombinant Plasmodium falciparum Erythrocyte-binding Ligands, Seward Joann Cofie

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Intrinsic Features of the Multisensory Cortical Area LRSS in the Ferret, Alexandru Ioan Cojanu

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With or Without You: The Impact of Partner Presence and Attachment on Exploration, Anthony Coy

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Power and Sample Size for Three-Level Cluster Designs, Tina Cunningham

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KLF2/KLF4 Double Knock-out Mouse Embryos Show Cranial Bleeding with Endothelial Disruption of the Primary Head Vein, Benjamin Curtis

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CONFINING AN ORGANIC MOLECULE IN A NANOCAVITY: EFFECT ON ROTATIONAL/VIBRATIONAL MOTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCE FOR SPIN DEPHASING., Lopamudra Das

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Making decisions about screening cargo containers for nuclear threats using decision analysis and optimization, Jamie Dauberman

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Dear Vulcan, Laura Davenport

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Impact of Alternative Financing Programs on Quality of Life and Employment Outcomes of Individuals with Disabilities, Amy Davis

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Relational Humility, Don Davis

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Patterns in Fish Community Structure in a Regulated River, Richard Davis

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PROTEASOME-DEPENDENT ENTRY OF HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS, Mark Delboy

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Museums in the Classroom: Preservation Virginia’s John Marshall House Trunk, Denisse Marie De Leon

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Image Processing Algorithms for Diagnostic Analysis of Microcirculation, Sumeyra Ummuhan Demir

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Development of a Flexible FPGA-Based Platform for Flight Control System Research, Robert DeMott

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Pyridoxal Kinase: Its Role in Vitamin B6 Metabolism, Jigarkumar Desai

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Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death, Cognets Nicholas des

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The Effect of Anticholinergic Burden on Functional Outcomes in Patients with Moderate to Severe Alzheimer’s Disease, Sheetal Dharia

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The Role of Synaptically Evoked Plateau Potentials in Retinogeniculate Development, Emily Dilger

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Strategies to Employ Androstenediol to Reverse Steroid Inhibited Healing in a Rat Model of Trauma, Francis Diskin

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Printed Matter, Inc., The First Decade: 1976-1986, Claire Dixon

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Primitive Current, Joseph Dixon

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SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ELECTROSPUN GELATIN/DENDRIMER SCAFFOLD ENCAPSULATED WITH A SILVER AS A POTENTIAL ANTIMICROBIAL WOUND DRESSING, Alpana Dongargaonkar

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Mind, Body, and Handwoven Cloth, Andrea Donnelly

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Allocating Homeland Security Screening Resources Using Knapsack Problem Models, Rebecca Dreiding

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The Influence of Organizational Culture on the Existence of Systems Employed to Improve Quality of Care in Medical Office Practices, Donna Dugan

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NEUROPROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF POSTINJURY LITHIUM TREATMENT: DETERMINING THE OPTIMAL DOSING PARADIGM AND ASSESSING POTENTIAL MECHANISMS OF ACTION, Katharine Eakin

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MOVEMENT WITHOUT MOTION: THE RHETORIC OF CONSERVATIVE COUNTER-CLAIMS TO GLOBAL WARMING THEORY, William Edwards

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Examining Violent and Property Crimes in the Provinces of Turkey for the Years of 2000 and 2007, Mus Ekrem

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Optical Characterization of Wide Bandgap Detector-Grade Semiconductors, Ezzat Elshazly

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iPLA2β, ALTERNATIVE SPLICING AND APOPTOSIS OF PANCREATIC ISLETS, Bhargavi Emani

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Giving Voice to the Hero Within: The Combination of Two Methodologies for Training the Actor/Performer-- The Use of Ritual Poetic Drama Within the African Continuum and Archetypes for the Actor/Singer As Explored in the Performances of A Thousand Faces: Every Day Heroes A Deconstruction of The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, Olisa-Mequella F. Enrico-Johnson

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The influence of ethnicity and gender on the relationship between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder status and cardiovascular responding, Alison Eonta

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OPIOID ADDICTION AND PREGNANCY: POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF SUBSTITUTION THERAPIES ON DEVELOPMENTAL MYELINATION, Andrew Eschenroeder

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Cell-Cell Junction Signaling Regulating DNA Double-Strand Break Repair In Breast Cells, SINDUJA ETHIRAJ

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Small Molecule Inhibitors of MAPK and PI3K Pathways Enhance MDA-7 Lethality in Renal Cell Carcinoma, Patrick Eulitt

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Duality of a Cage, Younseal Eum

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Differences in Peer Perception of Alcohol Use, Personal Alcohol Use, and Levels of Intoxication Among Students at Virginia Commonwealth University from 2002 to 2004., William Evans

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Memory Created, Maria Fabrizio

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Molecular Mechanisms Involved Involved in the Interaction Effects of HCV and Ethanol on Liver Cirrhosis, Ryan Fassnacht

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The Association between Teen Parenthood and Marital Status among Women, Amy Feinberg

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Local Charging Behavior on GaN Surfaces, Josephus Ferguson

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BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SUPPRESSOR OF IKK-ε AND NAK-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1, Jonathan Forbes

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Nurse Anesthetist's Perceptions Regarding Utilization of Anesthesia Support Personnel, Mary Ford

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ORAL HEALTH STATUS OF CHILDREN IN THE CHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP (CHIP) PROGRAM, Latrice Foster

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Perceptions of Social Acceptance and Peer and Romantic Relationship Self-Efficacy as Pediatric Cancer Survivors approach Adulthood, Rebecca Foster

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Does Growth Data Make a Difference?: Teacher Decision Making Processes Using Growth Data versus Status Data, Patricia Fox

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RECAPITULATING OSTEOBLASTOGENESIS WITH ELECTROSPUN FIBRINOGEN NANOFIBERS AND ADIPOSE STEM CELLS AND ELECTROSPINNING ADIPOSE TISSUE-DERIVED BASEMENT MEMBRANE, Michael Francis

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The Impact of Deployment and Psychological Well-Being on Family Relationships: A Secondary Analysis of Air Force Community Assessment Data, Keita Franklin

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Voices of Summer: Interviews with Middle School Students Repeating Academic Courses in Summer School, James Frye

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Multivariate Steepest Ascent Using Bayesian Reliability, Jeffrey Fuerte

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Insequential Sequence, Gary Garbett

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Insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) plays an essential role in cellular senescence: molecular and clinical implications., Amanda Garza

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An Efficient Implementation of an Exponential Random Number Generator in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Smitha Gautham

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VOLUMETRIC GROWTH MODEL OF HUMAN MEDULLOBLASTOMA IN THE NUDE MOUSE CEREBELLUM, Thomas Gavigan

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THE IMPACT OF HURRICANE KATRINA ON THE NURSE ANESTHESIA COMMUNITY IN NEW ORLEANS, Marjorie Geisz-Everson

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Handling External Events Efficiently in Gillespie's Stochastic Simulation Algorithm, Brad Geltz

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The Nexus between the Ballot and Bullet: Popular Support for the PKK and Post-election Violence in Turkey, Nadir Gergin

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Chronic Care Management to Improve Adherence: A Comparison of Approaches in the Care of Diabetes, Mary Ellen Gervais

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Breaking Art Apart, Michael Gettings

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Variation in sound production of the blue catfish, Ictalurus furcatus., Zachary Ghahramani

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CHARACTER MEMORY EXPLORATION: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO APPLY IT TO YOUR CLASSROOM, Dana Giampiccolo

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ADAM10 is a critical regulator of B cell development, antibody production, and myeloid-derived suppressor cell expansion: Effects of B cell-specific ADAM10 deletion and overexpression in vivo., David Gibb

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The Design Integration of an Animal Shelter into Martin Luther King Middle School, Anna Givens

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The Role of Methyl CpG Binding Domain Protein 2 (MBD2) in the Regulation of Embryonic and Fetal β-type Globin Genes, Merlin Nithya Gnanapragasam

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The Regulation of the Alternative Splicing of Caspase 9, Rachel Goehe

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The Roads are Bumpy Ones: A Study of Body Image Through Abstract Performance, Alexis Goldstein

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Scalar Waves In An Almost Cylindrical Spacetime, Joseph Gordon

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Evolutionary relationships in Afro-Malagasy Schefflera (Araliaceae) based on nuclear and plastid markers, Morgan Gostel

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INSIGHTS INTO THE CATALYTIC MECHANISM OF RETRO-ALDOL CLEAVAGE OF β-HYDROXY AMINO ACIDS BY ESCHERICHIA COLI L-THREONINE ALDOLASE, Remsh Soumya Govinda

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The Creativity Loophole: Needlework, Social Conventions, and the Permissibility of Creative Expression for Early American Women, Alyce Graham

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The Transcriptional Regulation of HLA-E by Interferon-Gamma in Tumor Cells, Quintesia Grant

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A Case Study of the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program with Commonwealth Catholic Charities in Richmond, Virginia, Shawn Greene

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Interpreting the meaning of grades: A descriptive analysis of middle school teachers' assessment and grading practices, Tameshia V. Grimes

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urban country club, Scott Grooms

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Coordinating Code in Virginia’s Historic Districts, Drew Gruber

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Individual Contributions to Stigma and Attitudes Toward Help-Seeking among Rural Emerging Adult College Students, Margaret Gsell